Posts made by stuka pilot

Get a Mac and you’ll be happy.

Gross….

I was meaning the rat…… eat much rat lately, dezrt? :wink:

@Cmdr:

Hah!  I knew it, you were born in the wrong century, Switch!  (or you’re REALLY old!)  That’s what passed for beautiful in the 1700’s!

I’m with Switch on this. Women who were more curvacious from back in the day beat any skinny athletic type of today.

As far as Jen’s current pic…. yes, I know it isn’t her, I would never be interested in a woman who wears a casio watch on top of her hand.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071218/ap_on_sc/indonesia_giant_rat;_ylt=AmXmMfOOkUXn5KjbM54qjums0NUE

:-o

Off topic!  :-o
Lock it, mod! :-D

Go Raiders.  :cry:

Just got Opposing Fronts.

Highly recommended. :wink:

Your friend is a good writer.

Tell him to keep it up.

@Guerrilla:

CC is Mennonite…

GG

Best BBQ I ever had was made by Mennonites.

You will be sorely missed. :-(

Congradulations, CC. Here’s to your happiness. :-)

Some people who get the smite more than the praise, I am not surprised in the least.

And then some I can see don’t get smitten enough.

Say it ain’t so or smite me down, oh smitey one!

@ncscswitch:

I grew up hunting and fishing.

White tail deer, grouse, pheasant, rabbit, squirrel, turkey…
Modern rifle (30/30 for dear, .22 for squirrel), Shotgun (12 gauge), muzzleloader (.50 flintlock, PA did not allow percussion caps for mussleloader season), and archery season (Bear Recurve).

Crappy, Bass, Walleye, Trout, Muskie (you need steel leader for those, even then they bite through it from time to time).

All of it was for food on the table.  I ate a LOT of game as a kid.

The only “short” fishing I ever did was for Carp.  Fun to catch when they pull your boat up and down the river for an hour, but they taste terrible, so catch and release.  And sport shooting was only clay pigeons, targets, or some “reactive” targets (sharpshooting black walnuts still in the husk with a .22…  when you hit the nut in the center, they explode!)

Same here… I hunted wild boar, deer, squirrel, and duck. Fished big game… (king fish, swordfish, halibut, crab). And then I like to hit cats in the yard with an aerosoft gun.

I like hunting but just never make time for it. A little more difficult in a city. :-P

good concept for a thread, Jermo. Kudos.

For your subject, I like boxing…. yet, that could be considered international, I suppose.

On another topic…  :lol:… I love pumpkin pie. Can’t wait for Thanksgiving.

Oh,… and I did a rolling burn out through lit gasoline on my bike during a block party. That was fun.

Okay, let’s say for even the slightest moment, you’re correct and he should have run for office. This is to run for office in a nation which had a very serious civil rights problem. with black and white drinking fountains… hangings for looking at white women… threatened voting rights… having to give up a bus seat…

Yeah, sure… he’ll win. :roll:

Tell you what, Jen. Go and publicly speak your feelings at a local pub or a mall or write a column in a well read publication. See how many people share your feelings about MLK. Ask your congressman to make a statement saying, “We made a mistake giving MLK a day of rememberance.” Tell your black friends… (if you have any black friends  :lol: :lol: :lol:)… what you told me. See first hand how he or she will react.

If you feel sooo strong about it… DO SOMETHING ABOUT. I would love to see it.

@Cmdr:

I don’t care if he liked to rape 3 year old boys with black skin and purple eyes.  That’s not germane to the discussion!  What matters is at least he was a scientist that was so sure of his convictions he was willing to put his own life in jeapordy to prove them true.  That’s something our kids should look up too.

That’s beautiful. You’re kids will look up to a pedophile if he invented the longer lasting light bulb. If my mother demanded me to respect a rapist because he was some brave scientific guru, I’d slap the sh*t out of her.

But because this guy was speaking out for someone’s rights (instead of actually fighting for them or getting elected and trying to get them legislation to protect them) he gets remembered?  Sounds to me like this is a guy who had no real skills, so he swindled people into giving him money and power.  In other words, a good scam artist, but not really someone I want my kids to revere as some hero.

.  Not some frazzin upstart who incited riots and civil disobedience.  (BTW, Paulo is not Caucasian, so don’t go off half cocked about some racist crap.  I know that’s next, just disarming the fuse now.)

I don’t have to…. you did enough yourself.

Fair enough, bung.
Personally, I don’t really care. I would rather have a Christopher Walken Day or a Sid Vicious Day.

Of course it does, bung. was I supposed to mention others? the subject was columbus. But sure they were savage murderers too. Happy? So since we all agree that columbus was a slave selling murderer, why do you want to have a day to …. as Jen puts it… “worship him”?

Hell,… since, Hitler expanded his German borders for a few years, wanna give him a day too?

Columbus’ voyage has even less meaning for North Americans than for South Americans because Columbus never set foot on our continent, nor did he open it to European trade. Scandinavian Vikings already had settlements here in the eleventh century, and British fisherman probably fished the shores of Canada for decades before Columbus. The first European explorer to thoroughly document his visit to North America was the Italian explorer Giovanni Caboto, who sailed for England’s King Henry VII and became known by his anglicized name, John Cabot. Caboto arrived in 1497 and claimed North America for the English sovereign while Columbus was still searching for India in the Caribbean. After three voyages to America and more than a decade of study, Columbus still believed that Cuba was a part of the continent of Asia, South America was only an island, and the coast of Central America was close to the Ganges River.

Unable to celebrate Columbus’ exploration as a great discovery, some apologists now want to commemorate it as the great “cultural encounter.” Under this interpretation, Columbus becomes a sensitive genius thinking beyond his time in the passionate pursuit of knowledge and understanding. The historical record refutes this, too.

Contrary to popular legend, Columbus did not prove that the world was round; educated people had known that for centuries. The Egyptian-Greek scientist Erastosthenes, working for Alexandria and Aswan, already had measured the circumference and diameter of the world in the third century B.C. Arab scientists had developed a whole discipline of geography and measurement, and in the tenth century A.D., Al Maqdisi described the earth with 360 degrees of longitude and 180 degrees of latitude. .

You see, Jen. Despite what you learned in your third grade class, your Columbus is a sham. And as far as your insulting civil rights, I understand why you like your fairytale columbus so much.

and btw, Columbus captured more Indian slaves than he could transport to Spain in his small ships, he put them to work in mines and plantations which he, his family and followers created throughout the Caribbean. His marauding band hunted Indians for sport and profit - beating, raping, torturing, killing, and then using the Indian bodies as food for their hunting dogs.